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What other personality traits are correlated with political ideology? Are these studies worth taking seriously? For example, according to the (corrected) study

• jwdunne 10y ago
  Looks a lot like this quiz scores based on openness to experience thinking in terms of OCEAN. Those who have a greater openness to experience tend to be more liberal. You could compare popularity of policies amongst types of voters and look to see what of the other personality traits influence those decisions. Fiscal conservatism, for example, doesn't sound like a case of openness but rather conscientiousness. Spending within your means, keeping a budget and generally being organised financially is a conscientious activity. Issues surrounding immigration could be down to both openness and neuroticism. The fear of culture erosion, terror attacks and such would align with lower openness and perhaps higher neuroticism in some cases. As a side note I've been turning over the role of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, cortisol and adrenaline in voting decisions. The common tactic of fear mongering threatens security - how does that influence the activity of the aforementioned neurotransmitters? Is there a method of campaigning that will counter act it? Its very interesting looking at elections through this lense.